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Arts First, Harvards annual weekend festival of students in the arts, will celebrate its 13th anniversary May 5-8. Sponsored by Harvard Universitys Board of Overseers, the festival involves more than 2,000 students in presenting some 200 concerts, multimedia presentations, exhibitions, public artwork, and theatrical and dance productions.

A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds seven out of 10 of Americas college students are concerned Social Security will not pay out benefits when they retire, with students significantly more likely to support investment of Social Security taxes in private…

Failed Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards brought his positive populism back to the Kennedy School on April 13, sounding a call to eradicate poverty in the United States. Terming it his new cause, Edwards told a packed audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that citizens and government working together have a lot…

After taking three out of four games against Yale this past weekend (April 16-17) at ODonnell Field, the Harvard baseball team seemed to climb the Ivy standings with the ferocity of a hot hit single on the Top 40 charts. With eight Ivy games left in this season-within-a-season, the Crimson, at 10-2 (17-10 overall), are…

Twenty-four Harvard College juniors were recently elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the national collegiate honors society. The newly elected members will be inducted on May 2.

Concert to raise funds for Sarcoma Foundation The premiere of “Cancione,” a work for strings by award-winning jazz violinist Ramsey Ameen, will be dedicated to the memory of the wife…

Four professors win Guggenheim Fellowships

More than 150 international leaders, scholars. and practitioners gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a four-day conference aimed at sharing experiences and fostering discussion on how to improve democracys functioning.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and lecturer in public policy at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Samantha Power speaks with photojournalist James Nachtwey prior to a panel discussion titled Photojournalism and Human Rights held as part of a weekend of events at Tufts University. Both Power and Nachtwey were recently named 2005 National Magazine Award…

In an effort to inspire a new wave of dialogue, action, and service among youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS, students from the Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF), the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC), the Harvard African Students Association (HASA), and the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) will be co-hosting, for the first time, the Unite Against…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following date:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church. Harvard faculty members James Hanken and Edward O. Wilson will deliver tributes. They will be joined by Walter Bock, professor of evolutionary biology at Columbia University Jared…

April 4, 1945 – At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco performs launching honors for the “S.S. Radcliffe Victory,” one of several wartime Victory…

As many as one out of three people in the world are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, public health experts estimate. That could lead to a global plague were it not for the fact that only one out of 10 infected people actually develops the disease.

In these uncertain meteorological times, an intrepid cyclist takes the chance that this blooming magnolia tree will not be covered with frost by the time she makes the first circult.

During an April 13 Capitol Hill breakfast for Harvard¹s congressional alumni and current members of the Massachusetts delegation, President Summers (right) spoke with attendees about a range of issues from student financial aid and Harvard¹s low-income student initiative to the importance of federal-university partnership in research. He chats above with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and…

More than 400 cyclists from dozens of Northeastern colleges and universities churned up the country roads and concrete jungles of Grafton and Somerville this past weekend as part of the third annual Beanpot Cycling Classic collegiate race.

During the summer months, the Harvard University Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program – an education program for the Universitys service workers – offers citizenship classes. But during the academic year, the Bridges efforts continue, with students working one-on-one with Faculty of Arts and Sciences tutors to prepare for their citizenship test. These tutors -…

Mathematician Horng-Tzer Yau, who has harnessed the power of mathematics to analyze and explain physical processes from atomic behavior to the stability of stars, has been named professor of mathematics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Stanley J. Korsmeyer, a scientific leader at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute whose landmark discoveries about why cancer cells survive opened a promising new avenue for cancer treatment, died March 31. A nonsmoker, he died of lung cancer at 54.

Melanie Li Green, advanced-level conservation intern in the Paper Lab of the Straus Center for Conservation, died March 31 after being involved in a motorcycle accident. Li Green, 32, had worked at the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) since Sept. 1, 2004, and was to complete her internship at the end of June 2005. She…

The Association of Black Harvard Women will kick off its 30th year by honoring renowned journalist and broadcaster Ed Gordon as its Outstanding Man of the Year at the annual 2005 Tribute to Black Men to be held on April 16.

A miniature book is just that – a diminutive text, generally less than 3 inches tall. A few of these books can be read fairly easily, some with effort and eyestrain, and others only with high-powered magnification. Houghton Librarys upcoming exhibition A Miniature Lesson in the History of the Book, opening today (April 14), will…